Jennifer Egan won the prize in fiction for her novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” Egan most recently wrote a cover article about Lori Berenson for the magazine, for which she is a longtime contributor.

Jonathan Dee, a contributing writer to the magazine, received a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel “The Privileges.” He has written articles about everything from gender-bending rap music to political blogs.

Bruce Grierson wrote this week’s cover story about Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist who has conducted experiments that involve manipulating environments to turn back subjects’ perceptions of their own age.Read more…